“Those Infidel Greeks; The Greek War of Independence through Ottoman Archival Documents.” (2 vols.) Brill, 2021.
Author(s): H. Şükrü Ilıcak
Publication date: October 22, 2021
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Abstract
The Greek War of Independence (1821-1830) is the founding event of the nation‐state building process in Greece and of the Greek master narrative, the generator of Greek historiography’s “others,” myths and stereotypes.
Mainstream Greek historiography has essentially been a dramatic panegyric to the heroic deeds of the revolutionaries and, to this day, is haunted by nineteenth-century European romanticism: It constructs a linear civilizational history extending from antiquity to Modern Greece, ascribes historical agency to the “Greek nation” as a collective actor and apprehends the four‐hundred‐years‐long “alien occupation” as a lapse from its normal course of progress and a period of preparation for its freedom.
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